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The latest news about research, events, staff and students from the School of East Asian Studies.

12 July 2022

Translating Japanese Women’s Writing: a Conversation on Kono Taeko with translator Lucy North and Professor Julia Bullock

This event will feature a three-way conversation between literary translator Lucy North, Julia Bullock, Professor of Japanese literature and Nozomi Uematsu, lecturer in Japanese Studies in the School of East Asian Studies.

28 June 2022

Why have BTS taken a break?

BTS take a break: world’s biggest K-pop group is caught between Korea’s soft power ambitions and national security. Find out what our very own Dr Sarah Son has to say about it over on the Conversation UK.

The Conversation UK

28 June 2022

Exploring Premodern Japan

Dr Thomas McAuley's interview for Exploring Premodern Japan is now live. Dr McAuley chats about the Poetry Contest in 600 Rounds and poetry contests in general, the interview also includes a trained waka poetry reciter chant!

Youtube

17 May 2022

Supercorporate, Mike Prentice's Book Release

Our very own Dr Mike Prentice from the School of East Asian Studies is publishing a book that will come out with Stanford University Press in June.

The “Xinjiang Papers”: How Xi Jinping commands policy in the People’s Republic of China

David's report “the Xinjiang papers” reveal the centralised decision-making processes behind mass mobilisation and detention, and dispersal of Uyghur and other Turkic-speaking Muslim communities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region XUAR

17 May 2022

University of Sheffield celebrates its impactful research

We are proud that 84 per cent of our research is rated in the highest two categories in the REF 2021, meaning it is classed as world-leading or internationally excellent.

12 May 2022

SEAS Artwork Competition

Can you capture East Asian Culture in either a photograph or a piece of artwork? We are looking for some amazing artwork to display in our Jessop West home and are asking for your help.

20 April 2022

Sheffield Korean Video Contest

We are delighted to announce the return of our Korean Video Contest for the third time! The Korean Studies programme at the University of Sheffield is hosting a Video Contest to promote awareness of Korean culture in the UK.

5 April 2022

‘Drive My Car’ Oscar is a slow-burn return for Japan’s cinema

Dr Jennifer Coates, from the University of Sheffield's School of East Asian Studies, discusses why Japanese film Drive My Car won the Oscar for best international film, and why it has connected with audiences outside of Japan.

30 March 2022